List of women classical guitarists
The following is a list of women classical guitarists by nationality – notable women who are well known for their work in the field of classical music.
Xuefei Yang performing in 2008.
Argentina
- María Luisa Anido (1907–1996), classical guitarist and composer
- María Isabel Siewers (born 1950), international performer and soloist, educator
Australia
- Milica Davies (born 1981), Yugoslav-born Australian classical guitarist and recording artist, now based in London
- Karin Schaupp (born 1972), German-Australian classical guitarist and actress, member of the Saffire quartet, recording artist
Austria
- Johanna Beisteiner (born 1976), international soloist
- Luise Walker (1910–1998), prominent classical guitarist and composer
Canada
- Liona Boyd (born 1949), British-born Canadian classical guitarist, recording artist and writer
- Emily Alice Shaw (fl. 2000s), classical guitarist and educator
- Laura Young (born 1962), international soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and educator
China
- Chen Shanshan (born 1983), guitarist, sometimes performing with other female guitarists as one of the Four Angels
- Li Jie (born 1981), classical guitarist performing with God's Favored Girls Super Trio and with the Four Angels quartet
- Su Meng (born 1988), classical guitarist performing as a soloist and as one of the Four Angels female guitar quartet
- Wang Yameng (born 1981), classical guitarist, performing with the Four Angels female guitar quartet
- Xuefei Yang (born 1977), awarding-winning classical guitarist, international performer, recording artist
Cuba
- Clara (Cuqui) Nicola (1926–2017), prominent Cuban guitarist and educator
France
- Colette Mourey (born 1954), classical guitarist, music educator, musicologist and composer
- Ida Presti (1924–1967), child prodigy, prominent classical guitarist and composer, duos with her husband Alexandre Lagoya
- Gaëlle Solal (born 1978), international performer, chamber musician and educator
Germany
- Maria Kämmerling (born 1946), specializing in contemporary classical guitar music, educator in Denmark
- Heike Matthiesen (born 1964), international soloist and chamber musician, specializing in female composers
- Monika Rost (born 1943), classical guitarist, lute player and musicologist
Greece
- Antigoni Goni (born 1969), international performer and educator, now based in Brussels
Italy
- Filomena Moretti (born 1973), guitarist, recording artist and broadcaster, performances throughout Europe
Japan
- Keiko Fujiie (born 1963), guitarist and composer
- Kaori Muraji (born 1978), classical guitarist and recording artist
Netherlands
- Annette Kruisbrink (born 1958), classical guitarist and composer
Paraguay
- Berta Rojas (born 1966), international performer, artistic director, broadcaster and recording artist
Russia
- Anastasia Bardina (born 1962), virtuoso guitarist, also of seven- and twelve-string guitars
- Irina Kulikova (born 1982), international soloist, now based in the Netherlands
Spain
- Laura Almerich (1940–2019), Catalan guitarist associated with the Nova Cançó movement
- Margarita Escarpa (fl. 1990s), classical guitarist specializing in Bach and chamber music recitals, educator
- Renata Tarragó (1927–2005), Catalan classical guitarist, international performer and educator
United Kingdom
- Nicola Hall (fl. 1980s), award-winning guitarist who has recorded her own guitar transcriptions of classical works
United States
- Lily Afshar (born 1960), Iranian-American award-winning classical guitarist, recording artist
- Muriel Anderson (born 1960), classical, fingerstyle and harp guitarist, composer and recording artist
- Anisa Angarola (fl. 1980s), international performer, founder of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
- Alice Artzt (born 1943), international concert guitarist
- AnnaMaria Cardinalli (born 1979), classical guitarist, operatic contralto, investigative researcher and educator
- Charo (fl. 1963), Spanish-American guitarist, actress and broadcaster
- Sharon Isbin (born 1956), prominent soloist with some 200 orchestras, recording artist and educator
- Martha Masters (born 1972), classical guitarist, recording artist and educator
- Vahdah Olcott-Bickford (1885–1980), founder of the American Guitar Society in Los Angeles, educator
- Ana Vidović (born 1980), Croatian-American classical guitarist, child prodigy, recording artist
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